leprously

Updated: May 25, 2025

Back of it extended an iron hinterland, savage with desert spaces of sun-baked, wrinkled earth and sand here and there leprously mottled with white patches of salt and with what the Arabs call sabkh

George Allan England - The Flying Legion

An imagination prone to the picturesque insists at this stage upon a vision of the latter days of one of the less happily situated lines. Along a weedy embankment there pants and clangs a patched and tarnished engine, its paint blistered, its parts leprously dull. It is driven by an aged and sweated driver, and the burning garbage of its furnace distils a choking reek into the air.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - Anticipations : Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought